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It’s Halloween! In the spirit of the spooky holiday, I replayed a PSOne classic; Parasite Eve. Granted this also would’ve worked for Christmas, but what the heck. So without further ado, we present Parasite Eve comics!
Happy Halloween! We’ll have Halloween-themed content all day~
One of the things we’ve been discussing behind the scenes here lately is the fact that a number of video game review websites (we won’t name names) have been posting more reviews for games that the reviewers haven’t actually completed. The average reader may not know this, but some of the major websites, particularly those who cover all genres, don’t always finish the games they review. This is understandable in some cases because of time constraints, the volume of their coverage, or the fact that with some genres, there really isn’t an ending (such as MMORPGs and certain simulation and puzzle games, which instead have hour requirements). But games that have actual endings — RPGs in particular — require completion. What’s disheartening is that smaller websites, whether they target a genre or a specific gamer demographic, are doing this too.
Continue reading ‘The Importance of Being Complete’ »
Preorder swag war never changes. With Gamestop announcing that Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers will be $5 off in their stores, Amazon has countered with a similar price and a packed-in 2010 calendar. Best Buy, meanwhile, is charging the full $49.99 US, but includes a soundtrack sampler with the purchase.
Crystal Bearers is due for a late November launch in Japan, and will debut after Christmas in the US.
Source: 1up
Blue Dragon: Awakened Shadow has been confirmed for a US release in Spring of 2010 on the DS, brought to you in part by Namco-Bandai subsidiary D3Publisher. Occurring two years after the original Blue Dragon, Awakened Shadow will allow players to customize the main character, and will feature recurring characters from the 360 installment.
There is no word on whether the Awakened Shadow‘s boss fight music will be as out-of-left-field as Blue Dragon‘s was.
Source: Joystiq
Straight from Atlus comes this sinister note written in blood:
“Early reports from the Kingdom of Boletaria indicate that the Old One’s power grows,” announced Aram Jabbari, Manager of PR and Sales for Atlus, shuffling awkwardly under the weight of his full set of fluted armor. “We’ve discovered that the nefarious Demon will seek to descend the land in pure blackness on All Hallow’s Eve. His minions will be more powerful, but the rewards for those who seek to challenge them will be greater as well. We don’t know how long this dark tendency will last, but we do advise those prone to controller-into-LCD syndrome to proceed carefully.” Jabbari then cackled as he quickly put a Thief’s ring on his finger and disappeared.
If playing Demon’s Souls sounds like your kind of Halloween torture fun, then log in to the servers if you dare.
The Penguins’ Chris Kunitz had three assists last night, prompting color man Bob Errey to write the following on the screen.
How it got past S&P is beyond me, but it led to an awesome photoshop.
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To hear Square-Enix tell it, Vana’Diel is in dire peril pretty much ’round the clock. To highlight this, a compilation of every expansion for their online RPG Final Fantasy XI is coming out November 12 in Europe and other PAL territories, available exclusively through a Windows download. The Final Fantasy XI: Ultimate Collection will include all current retail expansions – Rise of the Zilart, Chains of Promathia, Treasures of Aht Urhgan, and Wings of the Goddess – as well as the recently-released add-ons A Crystalline Prophecy and A Moogle Kupo d’Etat. The upcoming A Shantotto Ascension will also be included.
A price has not yet been set for the European release of the collection, although the US version is set at $19.99 with a November 10 release.
Natsume’s upcoming Harvest Moon: Animal Parade now has a release date of November 10, retailing at $49.99 US. Players who preorder through Gamestop will receive a bonus “limited edition” plush duck.
Ok. I’ll level with you. I’ve just scrapped my fifth attempt at an opening to this review. I’ve tried food analogies, tomato discussion, references to Halloween (the holiday and the movie), Tim Burton films, Okami, Phantasy Star… So, nuts to that. Settle in, kiddies. It’s story time.
Once upon a time, there was a little DS RPG called A Witch’s Tale. Her parents, Nippon-Ichi and HitMaker, were very famous in their own rights; one was a premier name in RPGs and the other was once a member of the famous Sega family. Though her pedigree shone, she was scorned from birth, partially due to the failings of her elder brother, Dragoneer’s Aria. As the young girl of the family, no one wanted to mention her in the same breath as her half-siblings Disgaea and Crazy Taxi. Realizing that she would have to seek her own fortune, she set out to prove her detractors wrong.
Continue reading ‘A Witch’s Tale – Staff Review’ »
Via a live chat with the official PlayStation Blog, Bioware announced that Dragon Age: Origins will be landing on the PS3 in North America on November 3. This means that all three versions of the game will be in stores on the same day, so PS3 owners won’t have to wait an agonizing two weeks for their copies while all the Xbox and PC owners chatter about the game.
Late last week, Ignition Entertainment issued a press release saying that the company will be publishing Marvelous Entertainment’s Wii RPG Arc Rise Fantasia in North America next summer. It sounds like ordinary news, except that Marvelous had previously selected XSEED as the North American publisher. This isn’t the first time Marvelous has switched publishers; Muramasa: The Demon Blade changed hands from XSEED to Ignition as well.
Source: Reuters
After some minor techincal problems, the Strategy Session returns! We’re continuing our look at Dragonica Online this week with a look at the Magician class, possibly the most diverse and frankly bizarre job class available in this game. Magicians split off into the offensive Battlemage and the supposedly defensive Priest class, but both secondary classes have some impressive damage production and can be played a variety of ways.
Continue reading ‘Strategy Session – Dragonica Online, Part II’ »
Bioware has released a companion flash game for their upcoming Dragon Age: Origins. Entitled Dragon Age Journeys, the game tasks players with rolling up character types and completing various adventures and quests with a turn-based combat system. Certain achievements will unlock special items in Origins, accessed by logging in with your EA account through the game itself.
Dragon Age Journeys can be played here. Download access to the special items expires June 30, 2010.
In a fresh interview with Tetsuya Nomura and Motomu Toriyama, Famitsu dug up a few interesting tidbits about Final Fantasy XIII‘s development, on topics ranging from character design to load times. Some of the more noteworthy bits include:
Continue reading ‘Final Fantasy XIII: Character Changes and Tech Specs’ »
The latest installment of the Kingdom Hearts series, Birth By Sleep for the PSP, has been given a Japanese release date of January 9, 2010. Retail price is currently set at ¥6,090, or $66-67 US.
Source: Kotaku
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